The word "right(s)" in the party's name refers to the legal and moral reasons for the autonomy, independence, and sovereignty of Croatia.

[15] Paraga harshly and openly criticized Franjo Tuđman for his cooperation with Serbia and the conflict with Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Paraga and the Croatian Party of Rights appeared in front of a military tribunal on allegations of insubordination.

Paraga's main political and electoral platform was the creation of a Greater Croatia and the total defeat of the Serbian aggressor.

[12] In the Croatian parliamentary election held in 1992, HDZ lost 7% of votes in favor of the Party of Rights.

[11] During the parliamentary election in 1995, HSP lost popularity due to bad situation in the party in favor of HDZ.

In 2000, Paraga again initiated a dispute about the Kutina Assembly before the Supreme Court, which accepted his lawsuit in May 2000, canceling the conclusion of the Ministry of Public Administration from 1998.

The Ministry of Justice and Public Administration issued a decision according to which the leadership of the HSP did not violate the procedure and the law in any detail at the Kutin Assembly.

In November at the 2007 Croatian parliamentary election, the party suffered a setback, as it won 3.5% of the popular vote and a single seat in Sabor.

The HSP announced that during the Croatian parliamentary election in 2011 holders of their list in VII Electoral District (primary Lika and Gorski Kotar) would be exclusively women.

[20] The president of the HSP in Split, Hrvoje Tomašević, asked for Đapić's resignation from politics and election in the party.

[22] Srb, the party's president, said that Đapić expelled as he broke his promise that he wouldn't be active in politics.